Yeah, released in December 2023. Season 3 was released December 2024.
I finished the first season of Dr. Stone. I read about it somewhere and the setting sounded intriguing. It's an anime about a 19 year old whiz kid who wakes up 3700 years after a strange light turned everyone on earth to stone. Pretty much every trace of human civilization has disappeared, but he immediately decides he will speedrun scientific progress until he can fulfill his dream to go to space while also finding a way to revive every other petrified human.
The main draw of the series are the (fairly) accurate scientific processes the main character uses to create new tools. It's fun to see how, with the right knowledge, you can use rudimentary tools and resources to create stuff that took humanity thousands of years to discover.
Sadly, that is pretty much the only interesting part of the series. It almost completely ignores the other struggles living in the stone age would bring, as well as any mental problems someone would face if they woke up 3700 years in the future with the world as they knew it just gone, with no idea if the people they loved can be revised.
There is only one real source of conflict in the series in the form of a rival tribe that wants to prevent scientific progress because they're worried that reviving all of humanity will also bring back all of the inequality. They would prefer using this opportunity to restart humanity with a clean slate. Which could have been an interesting conflict, but the show refuses to seriously debate the pros and cons of such an idea.
The show also refuses for anyone to be in any actual danger, so there is never any kind of real tension, which is a shame for a setting that could have been much more interesting.
The main draw of the series are the (fairly) accurate scientific processes the main character uses to create new tools. It's fun to see how, with the right knowledge, you can use rudimentary tools and resources to create stuff that took humanity thousands of years to discover.
Sadly, that is pretty much the only interesting part of the series. It almost completely ignores the other struggles living in the stone age would bring, as well as any mental problems someone would face if they woke up 3700 years in the future with the world as they knew it just gone, with no idea if the people they loved can be revised.
There is only one real source of conflict in the series in the form of a rival tribe that wants to prevent scientific progress because they're worried that reviving all of humanity will also bring back all of the inequality. They would prefer using this opportunity to restart humanity with a clean slate. Which could have been an interesting conflict, but the show refuses to seriously debate the pros and cons of such an idea.
The show also refuses for anyone to be in any actual danger, so there is never any kind of real tension, which is a shame for a setting that could have been much more interesting.
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The BBC is releasing a whole bunch of old Doctor Who shows on YouTube, including some that never went to DVD. I've been having some fun watching those over dinner!
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